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Louis Roybal discusses his childhood in Taos, New Mexico and on a homestead in the Oklahoma panhandle, working as a cowboy, and the history of his Hispanic family in New Mexico and Southern Colorado. He then talks in detail about his twenty years in the US Navy, with a description of his service as a fireman on naval vessels during World War I, and their engagement with German vessels. He also mentions his service on the USS Langley, the first US...
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Joe Fox talks about his early life as a cowboy after running away from home at the age of twelve, and about serving in the US Army's Second Division during World War I. He then discusses ranching in Rio Blanco County, Colorado. This recording is made available via signed release by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.